The purpose of this adventure is to identify how we all came to believe what we believe
I believe there are only 4 sources of acquiring knowledge that forms the basis of our beliefs.
Since the dawn of mankind, there has only been one known method to teach a human being anything Repetition, vain repetition, flash cards, multiplication tables, on-the-job training—just continue, sometimes mindlessly, until it becomes second nature and part of your habits and belief system Self-taughtness and self-reflection are by far the best method of learning what is real vs what we are "taught."
What also needs to be understood is that the only difference between teaching and brainwashing is the subject matter. All other aspects are exactly the same. No child has ever come into this world knowing what racism, bigotry, and hatred are. They learned it from somewhere.
Teaching as in the above two methods with the express difference is teaching a specific set of beliefs as held by the indoctrinator for various purposes; on-the-job training is the most common form of indoctrination. Military basic training is indoctrination; sports training camps are indoctrination; becoming a priest, nun, preacher, Rabi, imam, Buddha, or Sadhu all require indoctrination into the beliefs of their particular religion.
Rumspringa Amish teenagers are allowed to explore and experience the non-Amish world before making an informed decision about their future. The Amish intentionally segregate themselves from other communities as a part of their faith. For Amish youth, the Rumspringa normally begins at age 16 and ends when a youth chooses either to be baptized in the Amish church or to leave the community. The Amish let their children choose their future AFTER they had experienced the world outside their indoctrinated community.
Equally important is the maliciously deliberate omission of historical facts and events, i.e., at what age or what year did you learn about the Tulsa, Oklahoma, massacre? Whitewashing historical events to make them more acceptable to future generations and less offensive than they really were
ALL of us have been taught, brainwashed, indoctrinated and especially deprived of pertinent historical facts to some degree by those we learned from
Most enlightenment comes when an individual has time to reflect on what we have been taught and analyze for ourselves what we believe to be true historical facts and thereby the truth. The ability to change one's beliefs based on new information is what makes a person "enlightened," or, as some call it, "woke."
The purpose of this exercise is to bring to light the method by which we developed our closely held beliefs and see if they are based on actual historical facts and, thus, the truth This is NOT intended to attack anyone but help them see the light if their beliefs are based on anything less than honest and unbiased historical facts and truths.
The only thing that matters are historical facts and truths.
Your opinion or closely held beliefs do NOT change historical facts or the truth. If you have trouble dealing with that, it will probably be a very painful exercise to learn that some of the things you were taught were not based on actual historical facts Not the whitewashed versions of history many of us have been "taught."